A Tacoma police officer died Wednesday night after being shot while responding to a domestic violence call in Tacoma’s Eastside neighborhood.

The officer has not been identified, although it is known that he was a 45-year-old man who was a 17-year veteran of the department. He was rushed to Tacoma General Hospital following the shooting to undergo surgery but later died of his injuries.

The unnamed shooter, described as a 38-year-old man, barricaded himself in the house for 12 hours, reportedly using two children as human shields when law enforcement agencies responded to the…
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The Olive Bay, reputed to be the world’s largest single-deck bulk/log carrier, arrived Thursday at The Northwest Seaport Alliance’s West Hylebos log terminal in Tacoma.

The terminal, operated by Seattle-based Merrill & Ring Forest Products, welcomed Pacific Basin Shipping’s Olive Bay, the largest ship in the Chinese log business to call the West Coast.

Built in 2015 specifically to carry logs, the ship is 650 feet long and 105 feet wide. It can hold up to 8 million board feet of logs, which is significantly more than the 5 million board foot of most of log ships visit…
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With the federal government’s recent approval of an EB-5 regional center designation for the Greater Tacoma Convention Center hotel project, developer Yareton Investment and Management LLC will now begin to raise non-developer investment capital while working with the City of Tacoma over the next several months to complete the real estate entitlement process. At the developer’s expense, work to construct a ramp from Commerce Street into the parking garage under the Convention Center – as well as additional dock space adjacent to the existing ones on Market Street – is scheduled to begin…
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